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Re-examining the risk–return relationship in Europe: Linear or non-linear trade-off?
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September 2014
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the risk–return trade-off in Europe using recent data from 11 European stock markets. After relaxing the linear assumptions in the risk–return relationship by introducing a new approach that considers the current state of the market, we obtain significant evidence for a positive risk–return trade-off for low volatility states. However, this finding is reduced or even non-significant during periods of high volatility. Maintaining the linear assumption over the risk–return trade-off leads to non-significant estimations for all cases. These results are robust across countries despite the conditional volatility model used. These results also demonstrate that the inconclusive results in previous studies may be due to strong linear assumptions when modeling the risk–return trade-off. This previous research fails to uncover the global behavior of the relationship between return and risk.
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Science Foundation Ireland
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Journal of Empirical Finance
Volume
28
Start Page
60
End Page
77
Copyright (Published Version)
2014 Elsevier
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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